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The paradigm‐based model of morphosyntax
Author(s) -
Spencer Andrew
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
transactions of the philological society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.333
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1467-968X
pISSN - 0079-1636
DOI - 10.1111/1467-968x.00083
Subject(s) - participle , linguistics , set (abstract data type) , meaning (existential) , slavic languages , word (group theory) , computer science , unitary state , contrast (vision) , mathematics , artificial intelligence , philosophy , programming language , epistemology , political science , verb , law
A particular set of Slavic auxiliary‐participle constructions (based on the ‘l‐participle’) exhibit a number of characteristic ‘deviations from agglutination’ of a type commonly found in inflectional morphology, such as cumulation, extended exponence and zero exponence. The participle itself cannot be given a unitary meaning. I present an analysis of these constructions within the paradigm‐based approach of Ackerman and Webelhuth (1998), in which the principles of inferential–realisational (Stump 2001) or ‘word‐and‐paradigm’ models (Robins 1959) are applied to multiword combinations which realise functional categories.